Traffic stop for darkened windows leads to drug arrest in St. Lucie

ST. LUCIE COUNTY - Dark tinted windows on his vehicle led to drug charges against a Broward County man, according to a Florida Highway Patrol arrest report.

Jamie Oscar Rodriguez, 32, of Hollywood, was charged with cocaine trafficking; possession of marijuana; possession of drug equipment; destroying, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence; possession of cocaine; and possession of cocaine with intent to sell, according to the report. He was released Sunday from the St. Lucie County Jail on $142,500 bond, according to a jail spokeswoman.

Rodriguez seemed nervous when Trooper W.M. Shogran pulled over the vehicle Saturday at mile marker 145 on Florida’s Turnpike in St. Lucie County, the arrest report states. He allegedly told Shogran he was a private investigator.

Rodriguez was carrying marijuana, a homemade pipe, cocaine and crack cocaine, the arrest report states, and he had a gun, small plastic bags, a scale and a pill crusher in the trunk.

After dropping Rodriguez at the jail, Shogran found two pounds of cocaine under the seat of his patrol car where Rodriguez had been sitting, the report states. Rodriguez later said he put it there, it states.